There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.

That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.

I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.